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by jolux 1832 days ago
Apple could absolutely do it (or Microsoft, or Google, or Amazon) but there’s no justification for it from a business perspective.
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Aeolun 1832 days ago
Google sort of did it with Android and Apple with iOS and it worked out really well for them.
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upforgrabs 1832 days ago
fuchsia seems like a solid attempt by goog to write a ground up os
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sparkie 1832 days ago
What are the advantages/disadvantages of Zircon over seL4?

I've read up a bit on seL4, but can't seem to find the rationale or design decisions behind Zircon. Not sure why Google needs to roll their own microkernel when there is a fast, secure, formally verified one they could use.

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upforgrabs 1832 days ago
A web search shows some speculation suggesting it could be Zircon's larger feature set and a desire for an in-house ground up solution.

Fuchsia leads are on twitter; they seem very nice and some have open DM's. They'd probably be happy to answer

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